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“The Formula”: The Unspoken Truth About The Packaging, Peddling, And Commoditization Of Leadership And Knowledge

Lead Change Blog

Peddler markets book, particularly if they become expert at social media. Peddler’s event doesn’t really disclose much and is really just a tee-up for the real pitch. It’s called Amway for leadership development or the selling of knowledge. At its most benign, it’s multi-level marketing; at its worst, it’s a Ponzi scheme.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. The problem came with the follow-up question, "Why did example A fail?". The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. Create a knowledge management system.

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A Social Brain Is a Smarter Brain

Harvard Business Review

The design of the study was simple – the researchers took one group of participants, randomly paired people up, and instructed them to get to know each other by asking probing questions. Collaboration Innovation Knowledge management' After ten minutes of such interaction, the participants were given a battery of cognitive tests.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. But that's a good thing.

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Why Your Employees’ Suggestions Aren’t Going Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Consider a real example: Not long after a company created an online suggestion box on its new intranet, with all the bells and whistles of the latest social-media technologies, an executive lamented: “All we get are a bunch of complaints and impossibly wild ideas that we couldn’t follow up on in a million years.”

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Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team

Harvard Business Review

They are actively involved in building their business, developing their strategies, growing and maintaining strong customer relationships, and creating a service offering that’s attractive to their market. Provide Channels for Sharing Knowledge. These experiences were some of the most valuable of my career.

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